Peter Garland

Peter Garland was appointed interim Chairman of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on December 14, 2004. He replaced John Ryan, who was sacked at the same time. 

In January 2005, The Guardian reported that Ryan "claimed he had been made a scapegoat for the failure of the government's controversial [Foundation Trusts] policy." 

Peter Garland appears to be a long-standing advocate for NHS modernisation and Foundation Trusts. In April 2002 he gave a talk titled "Modernising Health and Social Care". In the overheads for the talk, Foundation Trusts were listed on a slide with the title "Diversity of providers, choice for consumers". The final slide stated: "In conclusion: Big money; Big changes; Big challenges. We mustn’t miss this opportunity." 

Garland's over-generous £60k pay package at Bradford
In April 2005 it was revealed that Garland was being paid £60,000 for his six month appointment at Bradford. NHS trust chairs work for three and a half days a week. Therefore, Garland's pay deal works out at £660 pounds a day, or assuming an eight hour working day, £82 pounds an hour. According to The Yorkshire Post, "Mr Garland's pay exceeds the highest threshold recommended by the NHS Appointments Commission for the chair of a large trust of just under £22,000. His equivalent salary is only just short of the £135,000-a-year pay package of the former chief executive of the trust David Jackson, who took early retirement last week." 

Biography

 * 1999 to 2002: Regional Director for the NHS Executive’s Northern and Yorkshire Region.
 * 2002 to 2003: NHS Director of Health and Social Care – North . Announced in September 2001.
 * June 2002: appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
 * 2003 onwards: Director for Partnerships for Health on Local Improvement Finance Trusts in Leeds, Newcastle and Middlesborough.
 * Since 2003: chaired an independent statutory inquiry into neonatal deaths and maternity services in Kidderminster.
 * Dec 2004: appointed interim Chairman of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

SourceWatch resources

 * Alan Milburn
 * Alvarez and Marsal
 * Bill Moyes
 * Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
 * Foundation Hospital Trusts
 * Monitor - the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts

Articles

 * Patrick Butler, "DoH appoints team of 'troubleshooters'", The Guardian, September 21, 2001.
 * "Order of the Bath", The Guardian, June 15, 2002.
 * "Monitor appoints Peter Garland as interim Chairman of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust", Monitor press release, December 14, 2004.
 * Debbie Andalo, "Five foundation trusts 'face deficits'", The Guardian, January 20, 2005.
 * Mike Waites, "Hospital stand-in chief on £60,000 payment", The Yorkshire Post, April 7, 2005.